Monday, November 11, 2013

Odesk Final Tips

Now you know how to write an article, you have created Odesk profile and ready to start work. Here are some tips to make it easier, faster and better.Contractor Profile:In earlier chapter we have already discuss the different components of contractor profile. The main purpose of writing these words again is to motivate you to complete 100% profile. I have notice that many people just create account and start waiting to get paid. You can not get any work with low profile score. Provide as much details as you can, it is 100% safe. Do not avoid uploading you portrait. As newbie you may wonder how can I upload my portfolio, and then you must remember that I already told you to submit your practice article in articlesbase.com and other website. You can upload your practice work on Odesk. You can share your profile batch on social media like Facebook, twitter etc.Understanding Odesk payment guaranteeThere is a very popular slogan in Odesk “an hour billed is an hour worked and an hour worked is an hour paid”. Odesk is a first company that guarantees payments, but still there are some terms and conditions that you must keep in mind before starting work.Q: How can you get guarantee payment from Odesk?A: To avail guarantee payments from Odesk you need to keep following points in mind.Always choose jobs offered on Hourly BasisCheck that the payment method of employer must be verifiedTrack your work using Odesk application called TEAMMaintain your work diary properlyYour work diary memos should describe complete activity performed In hourly jobs, total working hours are already specified by vendors; do not exceed the defined time limit. Other wise exceed time will be on risk.Payment is not guaranteed in fixed price form of payment by Odesk. But as far as my advice is concern I recommend applying both hourly and fixed price jobs, as most of the people offering jobs are serious employers and there is less chance of dispute in article writing jobs. But finally you have the only “guarantee” provided by odesk.Readiness Test:Passing readiness is not only important to get jobs but also ensure that you know the basic of odesk.com. You can appear in Odesk readiness test as it is not your first and last chance. Before appearing in this test you may ask simple questions to your self i.e. What do you think about feedback score?Do you know how Odesk provide payment guarantee?What is Odesk dispute policy?What is Odesk work diary?Have you read Odesk user agreement?What is your understanding about odesk team application?Do you know how Odesk charge fees?The above topic gives you a basic idea how odesk works.Odesk Jobs Application Quota: Odesk jobs application quota means that how many jobs on odesk you can apply per week.Importance of Jobs Application Quota:It is very crucial. As you may understand that there are already a lot of experience writer offering services on odesk.com, it is important to get your first job as early as possible. It can be possible only if you apply as many jobs as possible. If you have job quota of 20 jobs per week, you may get your 1st job earlier.Below chart explain different job quota:How can I increase job quota?It is simple if you are new to Odesk you have to pass and public test as much as you can and verify your identity to increase job quota. If you already got your job than try to increase your feedback score as it cause low jobs quota.Odesk ReadyOverallFeedback Score# of TestsPassed and publicStandard QuotaOdesk Id verifiedQuotaNoAnyAny22YesNone 0510YesNone 11025YesNone 2-31520YesNone 4+2025Yes1-2 Any510Yes2-3Any1025Yes3-4Any1520Yes4-5 Any2025Follow the table: https://www.odesk.com/help/help/my_jobs/candidacies/quotaYou may already understand that job quota is based on test and feedback scores. The odesk Readiness test (most important amount all test) are not count to increase your job quota. You may also remember that once you have earned a feedback score, it will be your main source of calculating quota.Easy steps of applying a job:Applying an Hourly Job:Search a job or browse by jobs category.Check the jobs you can do. Check duration, payment methods, price, work description etc in detail.Write an impressive and unique cover letter for each and every job. I will tell you later how to write impressive cover letter.Click Apply Button you can see on top left of job.Enter the rate (bid) you want to charge. Keep this fact in your mind you can not win by bidding very low, bid decently. But also bid within a given budget by employer. Paste the cover letter I advised you to write at point 3Enter the estimated duration in which you can complete your work.Click the apply button on bottom of the job.That’s all.Applying a Fixed-Price Job:Search a job or browse by jobs categoryCheck the jobs you can do. Check duration, payment methods, price, work description etc in detailWrite an impressive and unique cover letter for each and every job. I will tell you later how to write impressive cover letterClick Apply Button you can see on top left of job.Enter the rate (bid) you want to charge. Keep this fact in mind you can not win by bidding very low, bid decently. But also bid within a given budget by employer. An additional feature you will notice is an option of asking upfront. Upfront mean that you are starting job of worth $100 and you can ask to pay $25 or whatever first. I personally do not recommend asking upfront or at least asking big upfront.Paste the cover letter I advised you to write at point 3Enter the estimated duration in which you can complete you work.In fixed price jobs you can see a cautionary notice that payment is not guaranteed, at employer’s judgment and not subject to escrow, mediation or arbitration. Click on yes check box.Click the apply button on bottom of the job.I recommend you not to afraid of risk in fix price jobs but prefer hourly jobs.Cover letter made Easy:When an employer posts a job, he usually receives many jobs applications. Mostly the cover letter I one of the most important factor of hiring decision. Being an employer on odesk, I have notice that few freelance just missed the chance of getting job by paste same cover letter to all job. I strongly recommend you to write a cover letter which is unique and highly relevant to job description. Below are the most important points you have to keep in mind while writing cover letter.Important points to remember while writing cover letter:DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION. Never ever include your contact information email address, chat ID etc. When you are invited for interview, you are free to share whatever information you like.Most of the application starts cover letter as they are applying jobs from news paper i.e. “To Whom It May Concern” etc. Use neutral way of writing like Hello John, Dear Hiring Manager etcAgain I will say be relevant, do not copy and past cover letter. Use the same language of job description. It is most important part of you hiring process. Read job description carefully, provide some specific point about that jobLink related work if you have in you portfolioQ: How would I withdraw my payments?A: It is really very important to understand how you would withdraw your payment. Beauty of odesk.com is the variety of payment options.Following are the ways you can get your payment easily from odesk.comWire Transfer (Local Currency):It is most easiest way for people of south Asia specially Pakistan. It is considered as cheapest way for contractor outside the USA. Wire transfer is available in the following countryWire Transfer in Local Currency is available to Odesk contractors in the Armenia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Serbia, South Africa, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Uruguay. Wire transfer in Pakistan is available but with few restrictions.Wire Transfer in Pakistan: Wire transfer is most recommended way of payment withdrawal in Pakistan. But still there is some limitation, at the time I am writing these words. You can use this facility on in the following bank account.Habib Bank Ltd. (HBL)National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)United Bank Ltd. (UBL)Muslim Commercial Bank Ltd.(MCB)Allied Bank Ltd. (ABL)Bank Al-Falah Ltd. Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd. Bank of Punjab Ltd. KASB Bank Ltd. JS bank Ltd. Dubai Islamic Bank Ltd.Automatic Clearing House:Automatic clearing house or Direct Deposit is the simple network of electronic financial transaction, which allows the contractors based in US quick payment in their account.Local Funds Transfer:The Local Funds Transfer is the most direct and least expensive withdrawal method for contractors; you can directly deposit your earnings into your local bank account. This facility is available in following countries.Australia, Canada, Europe (Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)), India, Philippines, United kingdom, Money Bookers:Money bookers are also a very famous method for online transactions. Money booker is connected with your bank account you can transfer your money in your money booker online account and then withdraw in your local currency bank account.Payoneer:Payoneer debit master cards are also a very widely accepted form of payment. You can withdraw your payment in your Payoneer cards and use it on ATMs, outlets accepts master cards.Paypal:You can withdraw your earning in Paypal account. Paypal is most famous in online shoppers. You can withdraw your money from Paypal to your bank account withdraw or use directly from Paypal for shopping.

Hire!

Create your contract profileIn O-desk.com every contractor need to create his profile. Contractors need to fills out every information correctly in each section. Vendor will see your profile in a relation with your job application. A contractor with detailed information and excellent written profile will get great job offers.Note: You are not allowed to disclose any personal information such as E-mail, Contact no., or chats IDs and also you are not suppose to use any HTML format in any section, just you need to provide information in plain text format.My Account SummaryContractor needs to upload their portrait on o-desk as to make their profile strong and also can set hourly rate. You can also set specific rate on every application. If they change hourly rate on their profile it will not affects you current job rates.My Public ProfileYou need to set up profile level, write a detailed title, mention you languages level. Create your profile in such a way that it can grab attention of vendors. Your title and objective are main sections of your profile. You can simply write an objective as you are writing a sales pitch in which you are telling to vendor that what services you can provide to him.Portfolio ProjectsYou need to upload or can give any link of your projects. This is very useful for new contractors because as they are new to O-desk so they haven’t established any reputation. You need to mention a completion date also to make it strong, if you don’t have any done projects, you can use a volunteer work it is the best opportunity for you to expand your portfolio. It is not relevant to your skills. Employment HistoryYou need to provide your employment history all your work experience which you done is your past. You can mention all your experience as you done student jobs, internship or volunteer job you can mention that. But make sure that only that history you need to mention which is related to the job which you’re seeking on O-Desk. Many vendor see your employment history first wither it is related to the offering job or not. If you put any irrelevant experience then it can risky for you applied jobEducationGive details of all your degrees which you passed. If you studied any particular subject, but you did not graduate, you are free to add that information also. Maximum education information is good.CertificationShow your detailed certification which you have done in related job seeking field, put down your scores or any professional certification. But make sure that you are not allowed to add your O-Desk test score as it was already mention in your profile.Skills

Here you need to give complete details regarding your skills in listing and details. For example list your experience with Network engineer and IT support separately instead you write them together as IT Professional. You need to mention those skills that are relevant to your job interest such as if you need of job article writing then you don’t need to show them your networking skillsCategoriesYou need to specify the categories listed in your profile. Try to list selective category just select those in which you are specialized. Vendor can see the categories you have listed. Selection of multiples categories can make your profile dull.Other ExperienceHere you can express every thing what you need to express show your all abilities, your activeness or any thing you want to show. But make sure one thing that all information must be relevant to the jobs which you are going to apply. Familiarize yourself with the O-Desk Team applicationYou need to be familiar with O-desk features. There is free software of O-desk name O-desk team application it is used to track the time of your hourly contracts. It also has some additional features such as screen shot and URL shortening. The O-desk software will run on most modern operating system, so its features may be limited in old versions. So before starting any job just install O-desk team application software on your desktop.Take free O-Desk skill testsO-Desk gives you opportunity to give more than 100 free skill tests to prove your skills to prospective vendor. Passing O-Desk test is also very help full to increase job application quota for new contractors. You just need to give test of every skill which you listed in your profile or any other relevant skills. If you are not satisfied with your score than you can hide your score and can give test again in 30 days. You should have to make a highly impressive score. You can share your score on social media sites to promote yourselfNote: Once you pass the O-Desk readiness test your job quota will be greatly increase. If you haven’t passed the test on very first attempt you can retake the test immediately.Search for the best jobs for youYou can do customize search for job and if you find any job relevant to your skills you can also save your searches to get faster access later. You can also set the daily job alerts e-mail services, so you will never miss any new job opportunity.You can apply for both cases “hourly and fixed price jobs” and for new contractor they can start with some small fixed price jobs to raise their reputation on O-desk. The successful option for contractor is hourly jobs because O-Desk is giving you payment guarantee.Well once you complete search you can also check out the complete descriptions of vendor like vendor history and payment method verification. If any job viewed by you who is breaking policies of O-Desk like if the vendor is disclosing his personal contact info. or ask you to break terms and conditions or offers you to pay personally out side the O-Desk, so please report them to customer support or you can also find 'flag as inappropriate' link on the top of every job posting to report this.Catch Employers’ attention with excellent job applicationIn the beginning you need to apply on such jobs on which you are fit excellently. If you are not fit for any job so please don’t waste your time and vendor time for applying on such jobs. You need to keep in your mind that your job applications are limited so you need to apply on such jobs for which you are eligible. Second thing you have to keep in your mind to write an excellent cover letter, you should need to write a customize cover letter for specific job you’re applying to and your need and skills in that, don’t write a cover letter too long but what ever you write must attracts the vendor towards you and let them read more about you. If you have already done some work relevant to applying job so try to include URL of that task. If you need to ask any question to the vendor you can also add that in your cover letter.HTML format are not allowed on O-Desk but you can make your URL clickable by putting * at the beginning of the line.Only keep those jobs of which you think that is excellently fit. On applying on old applications will not affect your quota. The vendors who are not responding and shown lack in communication make work difficult to performIt doesn’t mean that you will start ignoring all those vendors who lack verified payment method. As we also don’t recommend you to work for those who have not complete their verification, because a new vendor always wait for worth full candidates before they complete verification method.Prove why you’re the best candidate in your interviewThe main part of hiring any person for job is interview. The selection of the right contractor is the best key for a successful contract. At this point you need to prove yourself that you’re the right person for such job or not. Sometimes it happens that interview is not enough to make any decision, so some vendors select some candidates for a testing purpose and give them small project, or trial contract to decide who will get the actual job.So how exactly does one interview as a candidate on O-Desk?First of all after job application vendor invites contractor for an interview. Then they both communicate through message center; try to keep all your interview conversation inside the O-Desk or you can exchange contact info and can also move interview to E-mail or chat or phone (Note: You are allowed to move to contact info. during your interview not before). But try to give a live interview (Voice or chat) at least a day before the task – mostly when you’re vendor is of different time zone.If the vendor wasn’t completed his payment verification method so remind them about payment verification in interview. Might be the vendor will not pay if he didn’t complete the verification method not every time happens.Well as you are new to remote jobs and you may not go through with such interviews if remote work, so here are some questions which will be mostly asked to you in an interview.What will be your available time? How many hours you can work in a week, which days and time will be Suitable for you to do work.For example: I work _____ to ____ or ______ through ________. Do you face any problems in your real time during these hours?What are your other jobs that you are doing on O-Desk or any where else? Can you tell me your responsibilities for those jobs and tell me that do affect your ability to work with me.Have you ever done any job before which is similar to this job? Describe me that how that job was similar or different from my job. Please give me any sample link or file relevant to such job.This job is related to ___________. Tell me your experience in related to this job? (This is the most commonly asked question)What is you preferred way of communication. (E-Mail, chat or voice), that will depend on situation you will be use at that particular time.

Get hired to work on contractAfter you finished with your interview, you hiring become end. Now vendor will notify you if he hires you for work.Do make sure that are you really hired on O-Desk when you start doing work, confirm the work start date, you contract time limit and make sure that the vendor completed his payment verification method or not. He can’t pay you if he didn’t complete his payment verification method.When you hire for hourly contract vendor usually set a weekly limit on such contract. If you worked over the weekly limit it will not paid to you. It is better that you start with low limit when you started to work for new vendor. Once yours trust develop then you can increase limit.When you hire for fixed price contract and you requested for up-front payment the vendor will be charged for this amount immediately. But you will get the payment after the security period. Mostly the contractor request for small upfront payment for the lack of guaranteed payment. (Remember O-Desk guarantees for only hourly jobs payments).

ManageIntroduce yourself to the team

Try to spend some time on every new contract to introduce yourself and let know the vendors and online Odesk work team about you. Well it is very necessary to know who to contact about what. If there is a small company, it is very quick and easy to find; but in a larger company it could take some time to get involve into the work team. When you’re introduction phase, do remember to get all necessary contact information. Well most commonly area is to exchange personal mobile numbers and alternate email addresses with vendors when there is any critical issues with your work.Establish ground rules

For the new contractor 'orientation' they always needs to spent some time for learning the organizational structure. To get the information regarding to the vendor communication, availability, logging time, submitting works, reviewing progress and anything else you want to ask. You can also develop a standard 'introduction email' that asks all this. It will be better if you set up a meeting on the first day of work to know about all these things before hiring for any specific contract.Work on your contract and with your team

As you hired on Odesk to do work, so it is necessary that you need to focus on your work. There are two sizes of teamsTiny team (It contains just you and the vendor)Huge team (it contains dozens of contractors and all the vendors’ colleagues)Whatever the contract is, it's your responsibility to complete the task within time that you have agreed and you need to do this every time you attempt any job. But don’t feel any hesitation to ask any question regarding the work to your team. Establishing a collaborative system will bring you to the success.Note: On hourly contracts, log your time using the Odesk Team app to qualify for guaranteed payment (Odesk does not guarantee payment on fixed-price jobs).Communicate regularly

Communication is best key for successful contracts. At first, you need to inform about your daily progress via email or through the Odesk Message Center. As you go through work so it will be preferred to communicate weekly or one-on-one work review. Communication issues are often the first sign of a contract that isn't working out. Don't ignore these issues might be it will cost you time and money. Do have good communications with the vendor and if you have any problem with continuing the contract, so you can tell the vendor. It will help you in future that he might rehire you in future.Review your Work Diary daily and weeklyWhen you work on hourly contract it contains a Work Diary, where the entire team can view your work in progress. When you log time using the Odesk Team app it will automatically uploaded your Work Diary. This will give an exactly idea to the vendors that you are doing the exact work for what they are paying. It will be preferable to review all you’re Work Diaries at least once a week or daily would be better.WarningIf you find anything that is irrelevant to the Work Diary, delete it immediately. You can only remove time during the current work week. If the employer finds a problem in your Work Diary (like you chatting with friends for a long period of time or surfing the web when you weren't supposed to) they can file a dispute during the review period.Utilize Odesk management toolsThe Work Diary is O-Desk's primary management tool, but it's not the only one. Be sure to check out your team room and reports as well. Odesk gives you many tools to help track your work.Leave feedbackWhen you finished your work and you press end contract you’ll be asked to leave feedback for the vendor and the vendor can also leave feedback for you. But according to the Odesk system no one else can see your feedbacks until they didn’t leave any feedback for you. The contracts with at least $1 earnings will appear in your work and feedback history. On Odesk, feedback is your reputation. It's not only a great way to show your appreciation for a great work environment, but also your opportunity to tell future contractors about an employer's shortcomings.

PayHourly ContractsWhen you’re working on hourly contracts it will be automatically billed you on weekly bases according to the time recorded in your Work Diaries. You can also see the weekly schedule carefully so you can understand that when your Work Diaries will be locked and when you will be paid for the work. Only those payments which are recorded by O-desk work team on hourly bases will be guaranteed.Fixed-price contractsIn fixed price contract is always depends upon the Vendor that how much to pay and when to pay for the job. They can give you payments in the beginning (upfront), may be in the middle (milestone) or in the end of the contract (completion). O-Desk is not giving you payment guarantee on fixed-price jobs. So it is recommended that you'll ask the vendor to pay a little upfront, if there is bulk amount so divided into milestone payments ask him to submit payment as you submit your work and the remind him for the full or last payment when you submitting your last work. It reduces the risk of non-paying vendors.BenefitsCurrently benefits of O-Desk's Health and Payroll only available in the U.S. These plans are available to all U.S. users. U.S. contractors working 30+ hours per week may be eligible for O-Desk Payroll and additional benefits.Community ParticipationWays to participate in the O-Desk community

Do conversation and get suggestions from your fellow users in the Community Forums.Read articles, share yours and comment on the articles on O-Desk blog. Also check out the employer-focused Freelancing Tips category.Follow Odesk on Twitter.Become a fan of O-Desk on Facebook.Join the Odesk group on LinkedIn.Subscribe to Odesk on FriendFeed.Join the Odesk Kiva Lending Team.Find helpYou can find video tutorials in the Contractor Learning Center.Read out complete instruction carefully of Odesk Help Center. Read out the policies and contractor safety sections.Update with new and updated features by reading What’s New section.Ask questions in the Community Forums with Odesk fellow users.In case of any problem with your account or you need to speak to Odesk staff, so you can Contact Customer Support.Favorite outside resources for Odesk users

Getting Started withOdesk

Introduction to Odesk:

Odesk is actually a platform for freelancers that connect the clients to the employers who are searching for online work.In simple words Odesk is MIDDLE MAN website that creates a link between a skill workers and Buyers or the person who needs to outsource their work. The Buyers post the job among with the short details and providers bid on that on either hourly basis or any fixed price bid. Odesk enables an individual to work anywhere, anytime. Odesk is a California based website started in early 2009, according to the latest survey Odesk having more than 170,000 freelancers scattered all over the Globe. The new employer can sign in with no starting fees they just have to create their profile and maintain their profile strongly by giving certifications skill tests, post their documents for verification purpose and then after completing their profile they apply maximum numbers of the job.Q: How it works?A: The buyers (usually who need to outsource his work) post a job and skill workers (usually the contractors) used to apply that job after getting information about it. After reviewing the profile the buyers will accept that application and the work starts. After completing the job the contractor should end the contract and then submit his work to the buyer. By this simple process the contractor may earn revenue and experience. What ever the job is done it should be shown in your profile automatically.Q: Why Odesk?A: You may be familiar with similar sites like Elance.com, guru.com etc that also offers the employment online with to the freelancer and professional and project managers. Odesk is becoming a most preferable site for the freelancer and buyers as well because it offers some special characteristics like:

For Freelancers (Buyers):Many of the other familiar freelancer’s site also giving you employers payment but it could in the form of their particular payment cards or any online banking, their would be no guarantee for cash payment but Odesk is providing guarantee for payments, so much so it has updated its payment options, now the free lancer can get the payments through their bank account using swift codes of their banks.The best thing in Odesk is if you find any activities during your work so the employer can stop the work and continue again later.Odesk is one of the leading freelancer’s website just because it is strict in its policies and uses Odesk Team software when working on hourly basis. By the team software the employer working diary can be maintain by means of snap shot.For Buyers:Odesk offers work in hourly and fix basis. This helps the buyers to check the work step by step.Odesk got an automatic invoicing system for buyers. The buyers use their credit cards to pay an employer for their work. Odesk is a platform where the buyers can be served by experienced and professional employers, by that they might have quality of work and a satisfied result in any term. Q: What is the benefit for Odesk?A: Working on Odesk is simple as it’s already discussed that Odesk is like a middle man website so definitely it will charge for providing work. Odesk simply detects 11.11% on each job means that Odesk gets paid when the employer gets paid, Odesk payment will be detected from the provider’s wages. For example if employer charges like $100 for their services then it means the buyer will be charged like $111.11.Q: Which type of work I can do? Odesk offers freelancing work in several fields like Web-Development, Software Development, Web Design, Logo Design, Graphic designing, Article Writing, Data Entry, Translating Skills, Maintaining records, Administrative support, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Adword Campaigns, PPC and so on. The employers can apply a job in several fields that they can find easy and reliable for them. What ever work employers performs on Odesk it is automatically updated on their profile. Q: What are the Odesk Policies?A: The policies of Odesk are not so difficult, but the main points are as follows: The employer can not have more than one ids or account will be suspended.Employer or Buyer should have to provide their verification documents and portrait.For more policies you may follow the links: https://www.odesk.com/help/help/policies/user_agreement#OUAConclusion:Odesk is a website where freelancer can register freely. Employers just have to maintain their profile in accordance to get the job. Working on Odesk is just like having any job in the real life, for example if a person applies for a job and suppose he/she invited for an interview then they should have to present their Resume and Covering letter among with their working histories and they will be appointed for a job, what ever task he performs on that job he/she will update that in their experiences. As same as that Odesk is website where a person got registered and can work on different projects and paid as they complete particular work. Odesk provides some readiness test and some skills test for individual freelancers by that the employers can revise the particular topics and will be blessed a certificate after passing that test. Giving this type of test will help the employers to encourage their profiles and show them as a professional in that particular field.What ever the job is performed successfully on Odesk the payment will be directly transferred to Odesk account that can be easily with draw by Bank, Paypal or Card. There are other familiar sites by throughout the survey Odesk found the best website in online jobs causing Policies, terms and conditions.

Chapter - 7

Online Article Writing Jobs Overview

Online Article writing jobs back grounds:Why do people need articles? There are many reasons I am listing some most common reasons.1Most traditional reason is to publish article in print material like magazine, news papers or any other promotional material Thousands of website is updated on daily basis. These website badly need free content/articles to engage their visitors 2As search engines are getting more efficient, they are focusing more on website content. They want unique content for every page on websites around the world. They also analysis the quality of content. So, we should thanks to search engines like Google to creating thousands of article writing jobsOnline market is growing leaps and bounds. Internet Marketing is back bone of online market. One the most powerful tool of internet marketing is publishing articles related to product on articles directories and Blogs. They are one of the major source of online article writing jobs4Publishing e-books is not great business on internet. There are many companies who research for finding high potential niches for writing e-books, create outline of e-book‘s chapters and post these chapters writing work on online jobs sites.Important Point before Going for Starting Work:5There are some important warnings, kindly consider it very seriously.Nothing is Free:6When you start new writing, do not write for free for any one. For practice and knowledge sharing purpose I recommend to publish your articles on free articles directories I mentioned earlier.Pay Rate:There are various pay rate offered by jobs provider. Usually, writing work is paid on per words basis or per hour basis. Pay rates depends on topic of article, length of assignment and experience of writer.Job Duration:You must estimate your speed of writing. You must have plenty of time for writing. Otherwise it may cause production of low quality articles. Try to figure out estimated time when you can not only finish articles but also improve the quality of article. You may also focus in increasing your speed. Keep this fact in your mind that most of the freelance article writing works is publishes on internet. It is not reviewed by sub editors, editors, copy editors and just publishes on websites to increase traffic. In such cases you are not paid higher amount, calculate the amount spend on basis of nature of jobs. I am not saying to not be quality conscious in any way, but it is also a fact that we can not spend 5 hours for an article worth $2.Building Reputation:As an online article writer, your work is the only source of your identity. Your article should not contain wrong information, must be plagiarism free and language error free.Deadlines:Never ever miss the deadline. Time is very important in this business. You must be very, very, very careful regarding deadlines. Try to finish work as earlier as possible.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Chapter - 6How to write an article

This is most important chapter. It is a heart of our work, “How to Write an article”. Look! It is not a rocket sciences, I am going to show you simple steps to write an article. By following these methods you can write almost any kind of article. Determine your topic. Exactly what are you going to write about? Brainstorm for ideas if you have to. When writing for wiki. How, you may even wish to refer to requested topics for ideas. It shouldn't matter that the same type of article had been written before or not, just think what you want to write. Step 1: Understand Your TopicWithout proper understanding of any topic no one can write a useful article. You must know what you are going to tell your readers. Brainstorming about the topic is a very first step of writing an article. for example if you are given an assignment of writing articles of SEO, your first step is to know basic of SEO, definition of SEO etc. This will help you further process.Assignment: Stop here and find what seo is? Why use SEO?Step 2: Do you know your Audience?A: It is very essential part of writing useful article. Although, most of article writers quite this step. This mean if you are writing article on SEO, then you must know who you should write for i.e. IT Students, Business Professionals, Home Business Entrepreneur etc.This analysis help you to choose your way to expressing your thought, your vocabulary and examples. It has significant importance, if you write an article about “weight loss tips 2011” for newbie you will talk about weight loss and recent tips. In other case if you are writing tips for fitness professionals then you must not bored them by providing basic weight loss information and tips. Assignment: Do some research to determine who may use SEO Step 3: Do your Research?A: This is crucial part, good research leads to good article. Research is a process of collecting and learning about most useful information from different sources. In this process we collect as much information as available. Before going surfing internet for research, we may know that there are two major kinds of websites available on Google Search ResultsFirst one is commercial websites which are selling products and offering service. Usually we do not find so much information from these websites. For example if you are researching on Tennis Ball and Google show you a web page from ebay.com, you can not find so much information. Second is informative website like wikipedia.com, articlesbase.com, ehow.com, ezineartilces.com, wikihow.com etcI always suggest that one should not start research process from google.com. Instead of searching on informative website like wiki, articles base etc are much better place to start your research.Hey Dilawar! What do you mean by Research I am not scientist, explain me.Okay, no problem. Let us do our first research together.1- Open informative websites i.e. articlesbase.com, wikipedia.com, ehow.com2- Enter your keyword in search box of these websites3- Read Paragraph by Paragraph4- Each paragraph must have some one or more unique points, find them out and write in your own wordsFor example: If you search for SEO in wiki you may find the following paragraph“Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the earlier (or higher on the page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a website web presence.”

The above highlighted text is a unique point which describes SEO. Read it carefully and try to conceive the point and write in your own words. i.e. “Search engine optimization is a method to increase rank of a website in any Search Engine” or “SEO or Search engine optimization is procedure by which a webpage or website can increase traffic from search engine by getting high ranks in free listing”Repeat this process on articlebase.com, ezinearticles.com and other article directories. In the result of this research process, you have not only learned about this topic but also get very use full points regarding this topic.Other Sources of Research: Depending upon the worth of article, you may use multiple sources of research.Talking with concern people is most simple way. If I can interview 2-3 concern people regarding the subject of article, it can give us most powerful points to write on.Researching books, e-books and research papers are also very powerful way of finding most useful information.Research process continues till we get most useful information. Number of point or duration of research depends upon length of article.Step 4: Length of ArticleLength of article varies by the type of article we are writing for. As major topic of discussion of this book is to write an article for freelance article jobs, length of article is determined by job provider. Most common length is 500 words. I would suggest practicing on above mentioned length.Step 5: Times to Organize Your OutlineNow review all point. Delete repeated points, improve sequence of information and remove if any point can cause contradiction. Now, divide these points into three major parts.Introduction:Here, you can introduce your topic and tell important point that you are going to discuss in your article. It is also a good practice to create importance of topic. For example if you are writing an introduction to SEO article, define SEO, tell the importance of SEO and also create the importance why it is important to learn about SEO.Main Body:This is most important part. Here we discuss all information we promise in introductory paragraph. You can put all major points in this part as it most crucial part of our article.Conclusion:It is not necessary to put some points you conceived from your research, you can just write a short paragraph to summarize all above points.Step 6 Writing Draft for your Article:Now it is time to convert your research into real article. We have already learned a lot from research. We have already organized these points into introduction, main body and conclusion. Now just follow the following steps.First, Read all points to revised what you learned from your researchSecond, write an introduction of your article. Not only use these points to write but also use that knowledge you gained from research. Do not rewrite those points, just read them and start writing whatever comes in your mindAs far as introduction is concern, do not write main points as it is just an introduction.Now, it is turn to write our main body. Read all points one by one, wait and think and start writing what ever comes first in your mind. Then go on and repeat the process. Just write, do not examine at this time.If the points conceive in research have been finished and mind stops catching new thoughts about the topic and you are still 100 -200 words short from the given length and then it is time to go back in research process. In this case, after finishing your second research you may start from where you stop writing.After writing all main point in your main body, write conclusion. Conclusion is a simply a brief summary of your article. You can also include call for action if required i.e. “Learn SEO to Increase Your Earning”. I recommend to unbiased about your topic instead of emphasizing on your favorite points.

Check and Correct:It is time to convert an article draft into ready to submit article. Check the following points to finalized your articlefirst, find any out of order informationCheck Repetitive points Find where you go irrelevant mean go away of your topicRead loudly to check the flow of articleFind and remove if any information just filling up the space and have no worth for reader.Be quality conscious, if you feel your article is not good than no problem. Just go back and restart research processCheck grammar and spelling errorsRewrite phrase or paragraph where necessary Plagiarism Checking:Plagiarism is hottest issue on website content. Plagiarism means coping or stealing any author ideas and words and representing them as your own original work. According to U.S. laws it is crime. The method we use to write an article already safe us from plagiarism issues. But still you can check different paragraphs of your article either they are already written in the same way on any website or not. Plagiarism is not only deals with website but also apply book or any other intellectual property. You can just copy different parts of your content paste it on Google search box to check if it is already published or not. If Google search result normally Google highlight those words or phrases which are already published on web.Submit Article:Finally your article is ready to submit. For newbie, I strongly recommend to write 10 – 25 articles of 500 words each before going into applying online jobs. To verify either your article fulfilling basic guidelines of article writing, it is strongly recommend to submit your article to popular article directories i.e. articlesbase.com, ezinearticles.com etc. If your articles are getting approvals by popular article directories, you will become a publish author. J Try it today.

Chapter - 5Types of Article Writing

If you are good article writer and you’re writing the same nature of article every time it means that publishing chances for your article becomes limited. You should have look to the articles of your favorite publications and you will be finding that they wrote variety of articles. Let me tell you five top most types of articles.The ‘How To’ ArticleThis is one of the most popular types of article. In this you’re telling to the reader that how to do something. This article could be “how to make muscles, how to write an essay, how to sell any thing or how to remove tar from your teeth etc.” this article is mostly famous because people really love to find articles to know how to do something.When you start writing an article how to do something, if there sequence is important so make sure to give sequence to article and if you put number then it will be better. Make sure the instruction you are providing must be simple and easy to understand. And you can also put a picture for making it more understandable if the publication allows you.The ‘List’ ArticleThis is also a popular type of an article in this you are making list in article to provide the related information regarding the topic. It is one of the most informative type of article and very easy to write. This article could be“10 Ways for being successful”, “5 benefits for planting trees”, or “12 reasons to join army”. A list article should have: • An introduction. • The list; each item may be a paragraph or two. • A conclusion. The ‘Roundup’ ArticleWell in this article you provide the information, statements, or opinions from different sources. In this you will be getting some suggestions from the experts like you asked them the same questions which you have wrote in your article and get the answers from them and then you put the answers in your article related to such questions. “Bill Jones, CEO of SHJ Limited, is confident that the market will turn around soon. “Within the next six weeks at most”, he predicted. But Tom Sloane, at Pickwick Associates, disagrees. He explains why”The 'Inspirational' ArticleIn an Inspiration articles you will be writing is such a way that inspires the person to such topic and it may be include narrative, essays, articles on faith and religion, and self-help articles. In this article you’re writing about your everyday experience what happens to you. You develop spirit in readers to face the life challenges and let them know how they can improve themselves on some ways of life.The ‘As Told To’ ArticleWell there are many people who have a great experience in various parts of life but they are not writers, so there is a large demand for those articles which written on such people life. This is quite similar to ghostwriting, because the audience knows that you are a writer for such article not the actual person. In this you’re showing the person who has experienced that “Like James Walton” subject of an article and “Angry Wolf” writer of an article.Instead of writing article by using third person as a subject, it makes the tale more real and personal by using the first-person.

So next time when you start writing an article so make sure you have to choose your type of article first on which you are going to write an article so you could develop a new depth in your article and it will be picked by large number of variety of publications.

Types of ArticlesBasics of Article

An article means some work in published format. Article can be publishes on web or on print. There are many reason of writing articles, news is most famous form of article, research work is also have a significant role in this regard, academic analysis, product reviews, marketing etc.1::Types of Articles:2::News articles3::Academic papers4::Blog writing5::Encyclopedia articles6::Marketing articles7::Usenet articlesLet me tell you something more about the most common type of articles.News Articles:We all have read news articles of news papers, magazine and websites. Usually it is consist of discussion of current news and affairs. News articles are consisting of discussion on specified topics like politics, sports, business, show business etc.Note: News articles are not a less popular format in online freelance article writing jobs.Academic Papers:

Academic papers or also called academic writing, it is not a conventional form of article writing. These articles are usually published in academic journal. It consists of research. This work is published after peer review by one or more referee from same subject. Blog Writing:Blog ‘article writing is most famous form of article writing available for online jobs. The Blog is a type of website or sometimes just a part of website which contains commentary, descriptions of events, learning material on a particular subject.Articles of blog depend on type of blog. There are many types of blogsPersonal blog: These blogs are kind of ongoing diary or commentary by an individual. For example a website designer writes about what he/she is feeling and facing. It is not focus of a particular topic but contain information about the personal experiences of people of certain field.Corporate blog: Corporate or business blog is a form of blog run by a business organizations for marketing, branding or public relation purpose.By genre: These kind blogs contains articles which are written on particular subject such as politics, travel, house, gardening, business etc.Marketing Article:It is most famous format which is available @ freelance jobs websites. These are the short articles related to service or product. These articles are distributed and published in different online platforms. Most of these articles contain bio box and by line which are collectively called resource box.

Chapter - 3Online Article Writing Jobs FAQ’s

Let us make it easier, I am putting down the most frequently ask questions about online jobs, article writing and online article jobs.Q: What are online jobs?A: As we have already discussed in our first chapter in details. Online jobs are form of work that is provided to freelance working via internet. Work is proceeded by worker and submitted to company, work is reviewed and you are get paid for this via bank wire transfer, check, Paypal etc.Q: What are online article writing jobs? And how can I earn money from writing online?A: Online article writing jobs are form of online jobs in which one has to write articles on given topics and get paid for these articles.As we have already discussed in our first chapter in details. Online jobs are form of work that is provided to freelance working via internet. Work is proceeded by worker and submitted to company, work is reviewed and you are get paid for this via bank wire transfer, check, Paypal etcQ: How much I can earn from article writing?A: It depends on many factors. Mostly article writing work is paid on per words basis or per hour basis. In both cases, your weekly earning depends on two major factors, how many hours you work and how quality work you can produce.Q: How I will get my payment?A: As I already told you in first question that you can get paid by getting check, bank wire transfer, Paypal and much more online payment transfer, so you do not need to worry about the way because you have multiple options. If you are working on regular basis you can get your payments on weekly basis.Q: Can I make money by writing articles online?A: If you have Basic English knowledge (you already have it that is why you are reading my book), you can easily start your earning by the following steps given in this book.Q: Do I need to work on fix working hours?A: No, not at all, you have freedom of choosing working hours. You can work in morning, evening or any other time.Q: Do I need to give them my credit card?A: No need to give them your credit card details, just give your bank details to get paid.Q: What about online jobs Scams?A: Yes, there are hundreds of online jobs scams. But if you follow my instruction step by step you will not be victimized.Q: I am teenager / retired / housewife can I do it?A: Sure, there is no age limit applicable in online article writing jobs.

Chapter – 2Scope of Article writing online

If you have basic knowledge of English grammar, you can easily write and read English and basic vocabulary, then you can groom yourself as a freelance article writer. You can make your living from freelance online article writing jobs or if you are satisfied from your job than you can make some extra income. In this chapter we will discuss how online article writing jobs can gives you benefits.It is Easy:It is not a rocket science. It is something that you already have been doing through out your studies, writing 300 – 600 words in English on a given topic. Good thing about this work is that you do not need any technical background as it is required in most of the online jobs. You need to learn some basic techniques of researching, writing and handling online jobs providing website.It is High Paid Jobs:It is one the highest paid non-IT online job. Usually pay rate is calculated on per word or per hour basis. Pay rate depends on two major factors, nature of articles and experience of writer. Writers with high portfolio may get higher per hour rate and newbie get low pay rate.Can I Get job?What happened if I start searching article writing jobs and can not find any available? No way, there are hundreds of platforms where thousands of jobs are posted on daily basis. Number of jobs is increasing day by day. You do not need to worry about jobs.No Fix Working Hours:You can work any time, there are no fix timings like 9 to 5. Total working hours are also not fixed. You can work 2 hours daily or can work 16 hours a day. If you are already on job, have kids, have to go for university/college or any other activity in day time you can spend time in night or vise versa.Data Entry VS Article Writing:Few newbie ask me that data entry jobs seems easier than article writing jobs, yes it is true. It seems but it is not. Data entry online jobs are lengthiest, hard working and low paying jobs available on internet. In data entry you need to spend 10 times more time than article writing to earn same amount of money. I STRONGLY NOT RECOMMEND DATA ENTRY ONLINE JOBS.SEO VS Article Writing:In fact I started my career as an SEO consultant. I love SEO. SEO is a process of increasing website traffic by improving a website ranking on search engine. For example there is a website www.trainingseo.com , if you search for keywords like online seo trainer, online seo training, Google certified SEO training, article writing jobs training, seo training UAE or any other relevant keyword you will find this website on first page of Google. SEO is also a high paid online profession, but you have to spend 3 – 4 months to become an SEO professional. So SEO is a good job but starting SEO online jobs is 4 times harder than article writing.Google Adsense VS Article Writing:Google Adsense is not an online job; it is a form of online business. In Google Adsense, one should have their own website, have seo skills to bring traffic and should spend 2-3 hours daily to keep website updated. It is a very good business, in fact I love it. If you search for Google Adsense training in Google you will find me www.dilawarali.com. But as a Google Adsense Trainer I can guarantee you that article writing has 10 times better success rate than Google Adsense.How I will do it?Easy steps 1, 2, 3 and paid:1:I will teach you simple steps by which you can write an article on any topic.2:I will introduce you with Odesk the online jobs marketplace. I will train you 3:step by step how to work on Odesk, passing necessary test etc4:Finally how to get jobs from Odesk, process these jobs and get paid.

Chapter - 1Online Jobs Review

For last few years, we all have been continuously hearing news, articles and gossips about recession and downsizing from almost every part the world. Recent economical changes also cause dramatically increase prices on necessary goods. Now people want to make some extra money in their free time. People from every aspect of life are concerning about ways of earning extra money. Not only working people wants to earn in a part time, but also an educated women, students and retired people who can’t afford full time jobs they are finding some part time job and looking for new ways of earning from home and last but not least, all those people who have fired in recession also badly need to do some work.Most of the time when we are searching for jobs or any part time earning opportunity on internet, we must have notice some thing called “ONLINE JOBS”. Online jobs are the form of jobs available online. In online jobs, we work from home for companies who outsource their different jobs to reduce expenses. Some companies outsource their administrative work, some outsource their marketing jobs and most of the companies outsource their IT related work.Moral of the above story is simple, in recent years regular jobs are badly reduced but online jobs are extensively increased.Most of you may be asking me, MOBEEN! Do online jobs really work? Will I really get money from a person or company I have never seen? Can I trust them? So, answer is yes, yes and yes.Yes! You can make your living from online jobs, but let me tell you the fact that like in every field there are black sheep’s, so in online jobs too, there are many scammers who are operating online jobs scams. Later on in this chapter, I will explain how you can avoid scams and get 100% paid of your work.Before going further I would like to explain which kinds of jobs are available online.Online Administrative Support Jobs i.e. data entry, Virtual assistant, web research.Online Writing jobs (that’s our major topic).Online SEO Jobs.Online Accounts Jobs.Online Web Development jobs.Online Software Development jobs.Now lets discus all jobs one by one:Online Administrative Jobs:This is most popular form of online jobs. Reason is simple; it seems easiest form of work. For example, if you ask to any computer user, Can you type a form? Can you post data into data base or can you just copy or paste? Then you do not have to guess any answer it must be YES.But sour truth about data entry jobs is that there are huge competitors from all over the world who are ready to work on these LENGTHY jobs @ very low pay rate. As an online business and jobs trainer/consultant I never recommend these jobs, as you get fed up by working long hours for few dollars.Online Writing jobs:MOBEEN! what do you say about these thousands of writing jobs, will you recommend it. Yes, I really love to recommend these jobs. If you know Basic English (you definitely know as you are using internet and reading this article in English), you can learn in 30 days how to write an article as freelance online article writer and can earn from online jobs. Normally you get paid on hourly basis or per article. In both case usually article writing work is paid @ rate of $2 – $10 per hour depending upon the topic, length of article and experience of writer.Online SEO Jobs:SEO is getting very popular day by day. SEO or search engine optimization is a process of increasing website traffic from search engine. For example if some one search for a term “online seo trainer” in Google, he will see my website www.trainingseo.com on rank 1 as it is optimized for this keyword and Google find it useful for his searchers.By SEO, business or websites get more traffic, more leads and more sales. It is become most essential part of online business. Most of online business owner like to outsource there SEO work. If you are good in SEO you can work as a Freelance SEO Consultant online.Online Accounts Jobs:These jobs are specially for accounting professionals. In online account jobs, you can get bookkeeper, tax consultancy, quick book, financial analyst etc. work. These jobs are also well paid as article writing jobs but it needs decent experience regarding given jobs and very good communication skills. Online Web development/designing Jobs:Internet is all about websites. Thousands of new websites are launched on daily basis and running needs regular updates. Online website design and development is one of the most popular forms of online jobs. There are multiple form of jobs available in this category i.e. design and develop website from scratch, maintaining website, developing applications etc. This category of online jobs also needs strong professional background of this field.Online Software Development jobs:Software development is vast field, companies outsource different kind of software development work i.e. games development, iphone apps, android apps, Facebook apps, database etc. these jobs have usually high pay rate and need very good software development skills.In all of above jobs ARTICLE WRTING JOBS are the only way a newbie can start making handsome money.Online jobs Scams VS Real online JobsLet us discuss the important points that I promise earlier to discuss in this chapter. Scam vs. Real online jobs. Like in every aspect of life there are scams, so in online jobs too. Online jobs scams mean companies offering online jobs but they do not have a real online work or they have work but they are not willing to pay you for it. I consider online jobs scams as CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY as they discourage thousands of people to make career in this high potential field.Real online, it simply mean a place where people who needs to outsource their work, post their work on credible website like www.odesk.com, www.elance.com etc. In this case you are easily paid for your work. Q: How to avoid online jobs Scams?A: It is really very simple to avoid online jobs scams. Let me tell you some most common features of online jobs scams that I have notice in last 7 years.Upfront: 95% of scams ask you for paying any upfront money in form of registration or account processing or website. Whatever the reason is, I would suggest you not to join any online jobs company asking you for registration or membership fee before providing you any work.How they work: Sir, I meet a person, he is really very humble and decent I believe he will never deceive me or I have been noticing their website for years and years how can you say them scam. These are terrible question, first of all let me clear you that scam or fraud does not mean that they will sale you a membership and next day you will find their office closed. They work in a way that you are unable to claim your money or 95% of their “clients” are unable to process work according to their “hidden guideline”. Simply, they sale membership to every person then design work that can not be process by 95% of their clients. In this case, they have to pay only 5% clients occasionally. In this way, they remain legally clear and keep selling memberships for fake jobs.Referred by Member:Many of the scam companies offer MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) schemes. Mean on referring a member to this company you can get high commission. So, many people buy these memberships to work online, but after failing in work they start promoting their membership.Q: How to Recognize Real online Job Companies?A: It is not too difficult. There are very few companies in the world who have gain tremendous popularity and trust. Odesk, Guru and E-lance are one of them. They show complete details of work, pay rate and you can easily find few people around you who have been working and earning from these websites.But you are lucky, I am not only telling you about these websites, but I will take you into step by step process of getting paid by these websites.